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Nathan Blades on Games Design & Show Production

Tag: Indie games

August 4, 2014 0 Comments My Games

Pizzapocalypse 20XX (Made for Ludum Dare 27)

A retrofuture visual novel, mashing high fantasy with modern subculture. Made for Ludum Dare 27, with the theme ’10 Seconds’. You are Alana Sorayama, codename Neon Berserker. A bounty hunter by trade, you are about to confront an evil Glam Necromancer and …

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Subversion Through Destruction: Embracing The Queer Power Fantasy

This feature was originally written for One Hit Pixel and can be found here. Sometimes you just feel like breaking something. Sometimes, you’ll feel better once you’ve absolutely dominated your aggressors, laid waste to the weak, and are told that you’re a …

Ludum Dare, Indie Games, 10 Seconds, Pizzapocalypse 20XX

Truth or Ludum Dare: How I Survived the Game Jam

This feature was originally written for One Hit Pixel, found here. Over the last month, I have transformed. I went into the cocoon as a mere journalist, and emerged as something strange, new and beautiful. A games developer. The best part is, …

Thought Police, Ludum Dare, Indie Games, Nathan Blades, Aryn Clark

Thought Police (Made for Ludum Dare 29)

Thought Police is a neon-noir visual novel made for the 29th Ludum Dare game jam, made around the theme ‘Below the Surface’. Out of over 2,000 entries we scored 54th in the overall rankings! Content warning for blood and a handful of …

Serial Gaming: Fighting Games

This article can also be found on One Hit Pixel, here. I’ve loved fighting games for a long time. I’ve never been great at them – most of the time I’m not even good at them – but they bring about such …

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Tech Talk: Seeing Sounds and the ‘Art Game’

This feature can also be found at the South West Londoner, here. Singing Ribbons is a new art installation by Matthew Maxwell for the iPhone generation. A series of paintings consisting of bold stripes of colour can be scanned by a special mobile …

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